Friends In The Armed Forces-Thursday

[ti:Friends In The Armed Forces] [ar:Thursday] [al:Common Existence] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Friends In The Armed Forces - Thursday [00:29.06]There's a purple heart on the stars and stripes tonight [00:32.36] [00:34.17]It's pinned to the chest of the latest liar [00:36.97] [00:39.72]And if you try to speak your mind [00:42.72]They tell you keep it to yourself [00:44.54]You got friends in the armed forces [00:47.21] [00:50.37]They wanna know which side you're on [00:52.00]Doesn't matter cause we'll all be off [00:55.68]To train to fight [00:58.34]Disregard our human rights [01:00.44]To play the part [01:03.26]The consciense of the damned [01:05.62]You say you're defending me [01:08.48] [01:09.64]I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons [01:12.27] [01:13.25]Praying not to see [01:15.44]Another folded flag to a mourning lover [01:18.44] [01:20.79]He was an army of one but they'll find another [01:25.33] [01:26.46]And in the fold of the body bag [01:28.95]Somebody check for a heart [01:30.39]You got friends in the armed forces [01:33.31]Now we know what a soldier costs [01:35.85] [01:40.22]It's the cost of the rest of us [01:42.49] [01:43.66]To take a life [01:45.64]We all have our price [01:48.03]The wife and kids sleep soundly in their beds [01:51.54] [01:52.16]You say you're defending me [01:55.35] [01:56.97]I'm untying yellow ribbons [01:59.61]On every single tree I see [02:02.69] [02:06.45]They'll float like butterflies back home [02:10.65] [02:13.58]And I can feel the desert's heat [02:16.51]When you're standing next to me [02:19.39]Friendship offers no relief [02:21.46] [02:22.91]Stay with me now just hear me out [02:26.57]Don't want to lose you to that great black cloud [02:30.14]Coming down [02:31.33] [02:33.55]You see in the path a bullet makes [02:37.32]When it calls you by your name [02:39.72]And the medic can't play the rythym of your heart [02:46.12] [02:47.41]So it starts to fade like footsteps in the march [02:51.14]The parade passes by our fingertips [02:55.90] [02:57.69]As lives once were right [03:00.39]To change our minds [03:02.44] [03:04.10]Everything that's wrong looks right [03:07.27] [03:09.45]The lives we lead [03:11.76]Are somewhere in between [03:15.69] [03:38.17]You say you're defending me [03:41.12]I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons [03:42.56] [03:44.25]Praying not to see [03:45.88]We're not going to hell [03:49.64] [03:51.83]To run rings around a wishing well